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Did you read the Houston Chronicle article about the candidates?

I was interviewed for the article weeks ago and actually found it online by accident.  It seems that some candidates gave the standard answers and a few, including myself, gave a more realistic reply.  I would say that 90% of what the article said was correct, but overall I feel it represented what I wanted to say. Read the article here




Learn about Bellaire City Council Candidate Mary Michael Fife

http://www.michaelfife.com/

 

Mary Michael Fife, a resident of Town Oaks Place in Bellaire, filed as a candidate Monday for the special election that will be held November 3 to fill the unexpired term of Place 5 City Councilman Andrew Friedberg.

Fife has not been a previous member of a city board or commission. She was recently asked by Mayor Phil Nauert to serve on the Ad Hoc Committee advising the city on the site and design for the new city hall, policestation and municipal court.

She did address the city council in July, 2012, about the concerns of her neighbors about the development of Evelyn’s Park.

Although Fife expressed gratitude to the Rubenstein Foundation for donating the nearly 5-acre tract to the city of Bellaire, she and her neighbors raised questions about whether there would be adequate parking at the new park.

The Evelyn’s Park Conservancy and the city of Bellaire have an agreement with Bellaire United Methodist Church to allow parking at the church — across Bellaire Blvd. from the park.

Some nearby residents have, however, recently expressed frustration that some park visitors have been parking on the residential streets.

Fife said she has become an “enthusiastic supporter” of the new park.

She has one son and is the proud grandmother of three young grandsons.

A retired oncology social worker, Fife has been a resident of Bellaire for 33 years. She and her husband, Dr. Creighton L. Edwards, is an oncologist at Baylor College of Medicine.

Information retrieved from http://www.instantnewsbellaire.com/2015/07/27/38862/




Learn about Bellaire City Council Position 6 candidate David R. Montague

David R. Montague, a retired engineer, filed as a candidate Friday for the Place 6 position on the Bellaire City Council.

Montague, an 18-year resident of Bellaire, worked at Shell Oil for 41 years before he retired.

Although he has not served on any city boards or commissions, Montague has attended and commented at Bellaire City Council meetings.

In July of 2013, Montague expressed concerns about whether the the city of Bellaire should seek voter approval of $5 million in new bonds for Evelyn’s Park. Bellaire voters approved those bonds in an election later that year.

Information retrieved from http://www.instantnewsbellaire.com/2015/07/31/38890/




Learn about Bellaire City Council Position 2 candidate Trisha S. Pollard

Ms. Trisha S. Pollard serves as a Member of Board of Regents at The Texas State University System since March 2007. Ms. Pollard is Vice President of Pollard Development, L.P. and resides in Bellaire. She was appointed by Gov. Perry to a three-year term as a Public Member of the Texas One-Call Board in 2003. She has served as a Director of the SHSU Alumni Association, as Foreman of the Harris County Grand Jury for three terms and as Chairman, Building & Standards Commission for the City of Bellaire. During Ms. Pollard’s career in the natural gas industry, she was Assistant General Counsel at Kinder Morgan, Inc.; Vice President – Legal & Human Resources at PennUnion Energy Services; and Attorney at Transco Gas Marketing Company, after working as Manager, Gas Purchases and in other business positions at Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation. She is a Presbyterian Elder and is a member of First Presbyterian Church, Houston. She also serves on Houston Bar Association committees, was Chair of the Oil & Gas Section of the HBA, and is a member of the State Bar of Texas. Ms. Pollard received her BBA from Sam Houston State University, and her JD from South Texas College of Law in Houston.

Information retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=35231586&privcapId=26338599&previousCapId=26338599&previousTitle=The%20Texas%20State%20University%20System


 

Bellaire attorney Trisha S. Pollard, a former chairman of the city’s Building and Standards Commission and frequent grand jury foreman in Harris County, has filed as a candidate for Position 2 in the November 3 municipal election in Bellaire.

Pollard, who is vice-president of Pollard Development, also served as a regent of the Texas State University System as an appointee of former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. A graduate of the South Texas College of Law, Pollard has served on several committees of the Houston Bar Association including the Oil and Gas Section and its Habitat for Humanity Committee. She has worked on more than a dozen of the 18 Habitat houses sponsored by HBA.

Pollard served on Bellaire’s Building & Standards Commission for seven years and three years as its chair.  She also served two years on the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board. She is excited about the opportunity to serve the citizens of Bellaire and looks forward to maintaining and improving Bellaire’s exceptional quality of life, with an emphasis on safety and security in the city’s neighborhoods.

She is a member of First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

Pollard has served on six Harris County grand juries.

Pollard earned her law degree while working full-time at Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.  She later worked as counsel for Transco Gas Marketing Company, Penn-Union Energy Services as Vice President – Legal & Human Resources and finally for Kinder Morgan, Inc.

Since leaving the corporate world in 2003, she has been Partner and General Manager of Pollard Development, L.P., managing family properties and the cow-calf operation on their ranch near Buffalo, Texas.

She and her husband, Randy Pollard, have been married for 41 years and are the parents of a daughter and two sons, both Eagle Scouts.

Information retrieved from http://www.instantnewsbellaire.com/2015/07/29/38880/




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